Workforce

Defining Community-Engaged Health Professional Education: A Step Toward Building the Evidence

by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 4, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

The Global Strategy for Health Workforce 2030 (WHO, 2016) outlines a set of milestones and strategies to expand and strengthen the health workforce that could better position countries to achieve universal health coverage and relevant sustainable development goals...

I Felt Alone but I Wasn’t: Depression is Rampant Among Doctors in Training

by Jenna Ogilvie | Oct 4, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

TW: suicide   If you are suicidal and need emergency help, call 911 immediately or 1-800-273-8255 if in the United States. If you are in another country, find a 24/7 hotline at www.iasp.info/resources/Crises_Centres.   Introduction Sandeep P. Kishore, MD,...

Data Acquisition, Curation, and Use For a Continuously Learning Health System: A Vital Direction for Health and Health Care

by Laura DeStefano | Sep 19, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

About the Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Series This publication is part of the National Academy of Medicine’s Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Initiative, which called on more than 100 leading researchers, scientists, and policy makers from...

The Democratization of Health Care: A Vital Direction for Health and Health Care

by Laura DeStefano | Sep 19, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

About the Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Series This publication is part of the National Academy of Medicine’s Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Initiative, which called on more than 100 leading researchers, scientists, and policy makers from...

Training the Workforce for 21st-Century Science: A Vital Direction for Health and Health Care

by Laura DeStefano | Sep 19, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

About the Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Series This publication is part of the National Academy of Medicine’s Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Initiative, which called on more than 100 leading researchers, scientists, and policy makers from...

Workforce for 21st-Century Health and Health Care: A Vital Direction for Health and Health Care

by Laura DeStefano | Sep 19, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

About the Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Series This publication is part of the National Academy of Medicine’s Vital Directions for Health and Health Care Initiative, which called on more than 100 leading researchers, scientists, and policy makers from...

Breaking the Culture of Silence on Physician Suicide

by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 3, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

TW: suicide   If you are suicidal and need emergency help, call 911 immediately or 1-800-273-8255 if in the United States. If you are in another country, find a 24/7 hotline at www.iasp.info/resources/Crises_Centres.   On April 11, 2013, I lost my...

Preparing Health Care and Public Health Professionals for Team Performance: The Community as Classroom

by Jenna Ogilvie | Apr 6, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  Introduction Today, team-based health care is no longer an innovation or even a choice. Increasingly, providers are using a team-based approach to deliver care, and the complexity of health problems facing many Americans, combined with the specialization of...

Bringing Community Health Workers into the Mainstream of U.S. Health Care

by Jenna Ogilvie | Feb 4, 2015 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  We have an innovation that is showing tremendous gains in improving health, especially among vulnerable populations. It has produced a return on investment of 4:1 when applied to children with asthma and a return on investment of 3:1 for Medicaid enrollees with...

Why We Need a Health Literacy Association

by Jenna Ogilvie | Feb 4, 2015 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  We believe health literacy needs an inclusive professional association to flourish as an independent field of research and practice. The creation of an international, multidisciplinary, peer organization has the potential to enhance the careers of health...